Rey-Rey Is Fundamental

It’s been three weeks! NBA season normally begins at this time but we’re in a pandemic so everything is backwards. Anyway, I am back for another fundamental helping.

Jen Ramos (@jenmacramos) stops by for a conversation. They do research and development for Baseball Prospectus. But really, we ended up talking about our culture. Jen, like me, is Filipino.

THE MONOLOGUE

I made a quick recap of the end of the NBA and WNBA Finals. We could be in for a quick turnaround for another NBA season. We shall see.

THE MUSIC BEFORE THE MUSIC

Jen comes on the show; I barely started talking to her on Twitter maybe a month ago? So it’s real interesting that Jen is working for baseball because we mostly know that us Filipinos love our basketball. So they talk about how they got into baseball in the first place. No, that was not their first choice.

THE REST

So we touched on the World Series for a bit. I want the Dodgers to win for a very specific reason. Along the way, I talked about why I’m suddenly watching The Bachelorette. It was a nice segue to what my Filipino dad wants of me. And it turned into a talk about how funky our lives are as Filipinos. Jen and I could be third cousins, ya know!

Thank you for listening!

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Rey-Rey Is Fundamental by Doc Nasdee

PROMOS

*Blake Murphy (@BlakeMurphyODC) of The Athletic.

*Katee Forbis (@KateeForbis) of Motivated AF podcast.

*Pamela Horton (@PamelaHorton13), video game personality

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I think we’re in a new month. And we have a new podcast episode! It’s Rey-Rey Is Fundamental. No need for a library card to check me out! Do library cards still exist?

Maggie Hendricks (@MaggieHendricks) is back! You remember her for her coverage of the WNBA for The Athletic. She’s also done work for USA Today and Yahoo Sports, where she helped launch a site called Fourth-Place Medal, which does Olympics coverage.

THE MUSIC BEFORE THE MUSIC

I got real irritated because some people seem to get angry over their sports but don’t see the big picture (it involves athletes getting COVID). Maggie helps me calm down about it.

THE HOOPLA

We talked NBA and WNBA Finals! Maggie also made a good point about teams being able to handle the bubble life. You should hear what she has to say about it.

THE POSTSCRIPT

We talked about getting starstruck and meeting some celebrities along the way of our work. What music did she listen to in high school? What music did “I” listen to… no, wait. That’s not exactly a secret.

Thank you for listening!

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Rey-Rey Is Fundamental by Doc Nasdee

PROMOS

*Shea Serrano (@SheaSerrano) of The Ringer and author of the New York Times best-selling book, Basketball… And Other Things.

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Here’s your Rey-Rey Is Fundamental podcast episode this week. Basketball, basketball, and more basketball!

Michael Sykes (The Second!) (@MikeDSykes), who writes at For The Win at USA Today and also writes a sneakers newsletter called The Kicks You Wear. We’re going into a new format here! Sort of…

THE MUSIC BEFORE THE MUSIC

I asked Mike how he got started. He mentioned his love of writing and, apparently, video game fanfics.

THE HOOPLA

We talked NBA and WNBA semifinals! We went over the Nuggets/Lakers and Heat/Celtics. Why the Nuggets in 7? Why did the Heat do so well this season? And maybe a Lakers/Celtics Finals might bring some sort of normalcy in this pandemic?

As for the WNBA semifinals, we went over the Seattle Storm’s depth, the growth of Napheesa Collier, the toughness of Alyssa Thomas, and the dominance of A’ja Wilson.

We ended up talking about how basketball is SO good right now and that a lot of media is doing a terrible job promoting the game that’s going on TODAY.

And somehow, we ended up talking about the officiating of the game. And Mike even took an officiating class. WHAT?!

THE POSTSCRIPT

We talked about his favorite basketball players, past and present. What is his guilty pleasure song? And why am I NOT the baddest Filipino he knows?!

Thank you for listening!

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Rey-Rey Is Fundamental by Doc Nasdee

PROMOS

*Anna Melissa (@annamelissa) of annamelissa.net

*Pamela Horton (@PamelaHorton13), video game personality

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Rey-Rey Is Fundamental podcast has a new episode! I’m so excited to share this particular show with you guys.

Jordan Ligons (@_jordanligons) of The Ringer covers the WNBA at large and is also a huge Lakers fan because, duh, L.A. ride or die. We talked about the exciting first round of the WNBA Playoffs. But first, we talked about the Clippers’ historic collapse as they blew a 3-1 series lead to the comeback kids of the Denver Nuggets. In fact, we talked about that for about 20 minutes. Also, please, listen all the way to the end. Social justice is very important to us and we went over that very subject in the last part of the show.

Thank you for listening!

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Rey-Rey Is Fundamental by Doc Nasdee

PROMOS

*Sarah Spain (@SarahSpain) of ESPN.

*Kristen Ledlow (@KristenLedlow) of Turner Sports

*Shea Serrano (@SheaSerrano) of The Ringer and author of the New York Times best-selling book, Basketball… And Other Things.

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I’m back. The Rey-Rey Is Fundamental podcast is back. It was on hiatus for three weeks but for legit reasons. Anyway, back to talking sports.

Brady Klopfer (@BradyKlopferNBA) of SB Nation (and, also, The Athletic!) returns as we talk about a myriad of topics. First off, we talked about how we feel now about sports in this climate; remember that we didn’t really want them five months ago. Then we got into some NBA Playoff talk and this was before the Milwaukee Bucks got eliminated. We got into a WNBA discussion that led to us talking about the WNBA Rookie of the Year race.

And then we got into a tangent of NBA Rookie of the Year winners. We went through the voting history and laughed at the many absurd ROY races in the past.

Thank you for listening! I’m glad to be back.

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Rey-Rey Is Fundamental by Doc Nasdee

PROMOS

*Pamela Horton (@PamelaHorton13), video game personality

*Delmy Barillas (@DelmyBarillas) of L.A. Sports Access.

*Shea Serrano (@SheaSerrano) of The Ringer and author of the New York Times best-selling book, Basketball… And Other Things.

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Episode 1-2-3 is here for your listening pleasure.

Evan Barnes (@evan_b) from the Memphis Commercial Appeal returns as we preview the 2020 NBA Playoffs.

After we briefly go over each series, we then started talking about the legendary NBA Jam. Which duo should represent each team?!

(PHOTO CREDIT: Bryce Wood/Sports Illustrated.)

And of course, I try my hardest to convince Evan to go get Streets of Rage 4 already.

Thank you for listening!

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Rey-Rey Is Fundamental by Doc Nasdee

PROMOS

*Shea Serrano (@SheaSerrano) of The Ringer and author of the New York Times best-selling book, Basketball… And Other Things.

*Pamela Horton (@PamelaHorton13), video game personality

*Bradley Geiser (@therealbradg) from Sactown Royalty

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A little later than usual for the podcast but Episode 122 is here!

Katie Davidson (@ByKatieDavison) is my new friend! She writes for The Next, which covers women’s basketball. She specializes on the Minnesota Lynx, where she previously worked.

It’s been nearly two weeks since professional basketball started for the first time since the pandemic. So we talked about how the Lynx had done this season. What were other surprises in the first quarter of the WNBA? Also, we talked about a bit of the NBA.

Thank you for listening!

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Rey-Rey Is Fundamental by Doc Nasdee

PROMOS

*Kristen Ledlow (@KristenLedlow) of Turner Sports

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WHAT? TWO PODCASTS THIS WEEK!? A MIRACLE! Rey-Rey Is Fundamental is doing it again for this week!

Shareef Jackson (@ShareefJackson) returns to this podcast as we talk about our favorite subject, gaming!

We went over the big games we played during this pandemic, namely Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Streets of Rage 4, and Final Fantasy VII Remake. We also talked video game soundtracks, memorizing ridiculously long video game passwords, and my foray back to horror video games.

Also, we did talk NBA restart but I’ve talked about that ad nauseum the past few months so it was just a brief talk.

Thank you for listening!

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Rey-Rey Is Fundamental by Doc Nasdee

PROMOS

*Blake Murphy (@BlakeMurphyODC) of The Athletic Toronto.

*Pamela Horton (@PamelaHorton13), video game personality

*Shea Serrano (@SheaSerrano) of The Ringer and author of the New York Times best-selling book, Basketball… And Other Things.

LISTEN HERE:

Errors happen but I’m back with a new episode of the Rey-Rey Is Fundamental podcast.

I have the honor of talking to Lyndsey D’Arcangelo (@darcangel21), who writes for The Athletic Buffalo as well as The Athletic WNBA. The WNBA officially started last weekend so we talk about what happened during the openers of all 12 teams.

We also talk about how Major League Baseball seems to have BUNGLED the pandemic (as of this writing, two games have been postponed due to COVID) and how the WNBA has the best chance of finishing their seasons compared to all the other leagues that are going on.

Thank you for listening!

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Rey-Rey Is Fundamental by Doc Nasdee

PROMOS

*Sarah Spain (@SarahSpain) of ESPN.

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Rey-Rey Is Fundamental podcast is here with some… ACTUAL basketball talk! Yeah, I conceded that it’s probably time.

James Holas AKA Snottie Drippen (@SnottieDrippen) returns to the show as we talk the pandemic life. Will this NBA bubble last? Isn’t it hard to make an earnest pick on who can win the NBA championship? Was Snottie drinking too much? How many hot dogs could we eat?!

And doesn’t it feel weird to talk about sports? We break it all down in the latest episode of the Fundamental. Also, here were the shoes Snottie was talking about during the episode.

Thank you for listening! Remember that everything is cake.

These Are All Cakes pic.twitter.com/ejArkJHaid

— Tasty (@tasty) July 8, 2020

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Rey-Rey Is Fundamental by Doc Nasdee

PROMOS

*James Holas (@KateeForbis)

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